-
Search our Blog
-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- stone pet urn on The Case of the Mysterious Astoria University SkyMall Ad
- I watched friendship and I enjoyed it alot. It is the best Asian movie I saw. It is a must see for you all who loves teen films. on 290-pound Man is Too Fat for Seating at White Castle
- estudiar turismo on Google Announces Cr-48 Chrome OS Notebook-Here’s How to Get One for Free (Maybe)
- Financial Services on How To Watch World Cup 2010 Online, Easily and For Free
- Peter at Speed Turkish on USA Womens’ Soccer Beats France 3-1, Advances to World Cup Finals
Categories
Archives
-
Category Archives: Internet
Google Announces Cr-48 Chrome OS Notebook-Here’s How to Get One for Free (Maybe)
Yesterday Google had themselves a big ol’ press event all about their Chrome OS. You may recall that this is Google’s browser-based operating system “for people who spend most of their time on the web.” Not surprisingly, the highlight of … Continue reading
The Cloud is a Lie: How Microsoft’s “To the Cloud” Commercials Confuse and Mislead
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lel3swo4RMc] If you’ve watched any television at all in the last few weeks, you’ve probably seen one of Microsoft‘s “To the Cloud” commercials. These consumer-focused ads feature ordinary folks happily going “to the cloud” when confronted with a conundrum that Windows can … Continue reading
As Seen on the Internet: The Many Uses of Cork
Cork is a funny material. Not funny strange, but more ha-ha funny. (Unless you live in Portugal, in which case cork is serious business.) Not to get all Jerry Seinfeld on you, but what’s the deal? Cork is wood, but it’s … Continue reading
Facebook and Twitter Leave Your Account Wide Open on Open WiFi Networks
You know that cool coffee shop down the street? Not Starbucks–the local place with the free, open WiFi? It’s a horrible place to check your Facebook wall. Remember the library? Yeah, that place with books and magazines and the WiFi? … Continue reading
Libya Starts to Shut Down URL Shorteners, Bit.ly Raises $10 Million
In a classic example of what we might call “imperfect timing,” URL shortening service bit.ly announced today that they’d raised an additional $10 million in a just-concluded round of funding. Their blog post on the matter includes a pretty graph … Continue reading
AOL Buys TechCruch, is Apparently Still Around. Here Are 5 Other Sites We Forgot AOL Owns.
Listen, people. We try, we really do, to stay up on most technology and Internet-related news. We’d even noticed some of the rumors about AOL and TechCrunch that were floating around yesterday, and were confirmed today when news broke that … Continue reading
How Long Can the New Twitter and Facebook Co-Exist?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIpD7hfffQo] Just yesterday those crazy kids at Twitter announced that a new interface would begin rolling out to users of Twitter.com shortly. To no-one’s surprise, the new variant includes images and video right on the page, so there’s no need … Continue reading
Cancel the Internet: Justin Bieber Uses 3% of Twitter’s Capacity
We’re not usually the kind of people who tell you the sky is falling (we’ll save that for the brain eating vaccine crowd), but you might want to sit down for what we’re about to tell you. According to designer … Continue reading
Google’s New Feature is Showing Search Results as You Type (UPDATE: It’s Called “Google Instant”)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=979kKeC3Q3o] With all the hoopla over Google‘s home page antics over the past few days, speculation as to what it could mean in relation to today’s “can’t miss” press conference has run rampant. With just a few hours before the announcement, … Continue reading
Google Ads Phone Calls to Gmail. Yay?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-DzpAg0SdU] Yesterday, just hours after the first rumors of the feature surfaced, Google announced they were adding the ability to make phone calls to their flagship Gmail email service. We’ve tried out the feature a bit and it works almost … Continue reading